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administration

The Consultative Assembly, formed by the sultan in 1981, was replaced in 1991 by a
Consultative Council (Majlis al-Shūrā), members of which were at first appointed and later elected from several dozen districts (
wilāyāt); women from a few constituencies were given the right to serve on the council. In 1996 the sultan announced the...